Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio Quotes
I do need to be told when I'm going wrong. No one's acting can be an exact, 100 percent science.
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We will move forward, we will move upward, and yes, we will move onward.
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The first thing one must remember about film is that it is a young medium. And it is essential for every responsible artist to cultivate the ground that has been left fallow.
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In so much of politics you're not allowed to disagree with what's been agreed.
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When you've done a show that's as successful as 'Lovejoy' was, it hangs around for a few years, and people know you from it. I escaped the shadow when I stopped 'Lovejoy' by not doing any television for four years.
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It's this upside-down world that we live in where we afford political correctness to the most intolerant group of individuals on the planet.
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Like brown rice, black rice is unmilled, and it is the dark outer husk that makes it so nutty and chewy. It's also why it takes longer to cook than many other rices.
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I don't want to go down in history as a man who allowed blood to be shed.
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I don't know what's going to happen in life, so I don't think it's fair that I know what's going to happen in 'Homeland.'
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It's a tough transition really for theater actors to adjust to television or film, and all of these years later, I still have a tendency to play it too big.
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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
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Bob Rubin was opposed to signing the welfare bill. He's not exactly what I call a flaming liberal.
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Bipolar disorder, manic depression, depression, black dog, whatever you want to call it, is inherent in our society. It's a product of stress and in my case over-work.
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I was not really aware of the dystopian genre before I read 'The Handmaid's Tale.' Many poets as well, like John Donne and Emily Dickinson, would be the influences; I specialized in Emily Dickinson at university. Both of those poets have really interesting ways of looking at life and death.
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In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as we in the West may resent it, India has a lot to teach us when it comes to religious tolerance.
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We must remember that as the centuries go by, time will pass.
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I never read my reviews... not even the good ones. Barbra Streisand once told me, if just one person in the audience doesn't applaud, it bothers her. I'm the same way. I'd be devastated to read that someone didn't like my work.
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I would not say that female cosmonauts are not welcomed in the Russian space program. I must say, however, that all spaceflight hardware, including spacesuits and spacecraft comfort assuring systems, were designed mostly by men and for men.
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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
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If you do not understand what God's present claims over you are, you may depend upon it that as days of testing come on you will not be able to keep your footing.
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Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.
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So the British, of all ages, still walk the course. On trips to Florida or the American desert, they still marvel, or shudder, at the fleets of electric carts going off in the morning like the first assault wave at the Battle of El Alamein. It is unlikely, for some time, that a Briton will come across in his native land such a scorecard as Henry Longhurst rescued from a California club and cherished till the day he died. The last on its list of local rules printed the firm warning "A Player on Foot Has No Standing on the Course."
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I am lucky to have good Polish skin that doesn't wrinkle so I might be around for a few years yet.
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I do need to be told when I'm going wrong. No one's acting can be an exact, 100 percent science.
